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Yeah.You got

Richard Day — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:42:15 +0000

In reply to Actually, it's interesting to

Yeah.

You got it!

fundamentalist Muslim is as stupid as fundamentalist Christian!!

Actually, it's interesting to

Verified Atheist — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:30:42 +0000

In reply to Hmmm, isn't the idea of

Actually, it's interesting to compare this concept of letting the kids decide between creationism and evolution with their disdain for multiculturism expressed in the video that Orion linked to in his American Nazism posting.

I remember those days Smith.I

Richard Day — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:07:42 +0000

In reply to Hmmm, isn't the idea of

I remember those days Smith.

I was not in one of those commie schools, but I recall the debate.

In the end, I keep reminding myself, that whatever they teach, the smart kids will rebel!!

Hmmm, isn't the idea of

MrSmith1 — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:02:58 +0000

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Hmmm, isn't the idea of letting the kids decide one of those Un-American educational concepts fostered by California Montessori-type schools? Y'know, the places that Conservatives used to scream were full of Commies and bleeding heart liberal hippies? Schools that were nothing more than bastions of ignorance where spoiled and undisciplined kids only learn what they want to learn and which will eventually destroy America's future greatness? Who knew that concept was actually Conservative?

I have a couple of friends

Verified Atheist — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:41:18 +0000

In reply to I agree about the sciences,

I have a couple of friends who are creationists. One of them has done work with genetic algorithms, so he is a creationist despite having at least a rudimentary idea of how evolution can work. I'm also aware of a creationist microbiologist who believes in microevolution (and has done work involving it), but not macroevolution (that's a distinction often made by creationists).

I agree about the sciences,

Doctor Cleveland — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:22:00 +0000

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I agree about the sciences, even if there's a long tradition of religious scientists doing double-think. (A born-again doctor might officially disbelieve in evolution but know that prescribing antibiotics willy-nilly leads to bacteria with resistance to antibiotics.) I'm not saying that their conclusions aren't stupid.

But you asked how hard it was to get in to Oral ROberts. That question has an answer: they don't take everyobody.

Let me rephrase your position: you can't be a good geologist if you're a young earth creationist, no matter how high your IQ is.But that doesn't mean that none of the young earth creationists would have the brains to be good geologists if they accepted the scientific method. Some of them are smart people who believe insane things. That's the sad part.

There's crazy and there's stupid. Both are bad. But somepeople with a high natural intellidence funnel all of that intelligence into supporting their craziness, so that they have high IQs and are wrong about everything. (Mike Huckabee isn't dumb. He just spends all of his brainpower excusing and defending stupidity. There's a difference.)

You cannot be a

Richard Day — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:10:39 +0000

In reply to I know you don't mean the

You cannot be a fundamentalist and practice geology, mathematics, astronomy, physics or a hundred other scientific disciplines.

If we cannot agree on the ranges for the speed of light--depending upon the contexts whether we are talking about outer space or our atmosphere or water--what can we agree upon?

The earth is not only ten thousand years old because we would be able to see only a small percentage of the stars in the sky.

God did not stand upon the earth and throw the moon and the sun and the stars into the sky.

There is no dome as depicted in Genesis.

Evolution is a fact of life or you cannot properly practice medicine.

And now these flakes are putting this crap in our children's textbooks!

And the new propaganda in those text books that replace our history with myths created by fascists is a threat to our national consciousness.

You wait and see. These cretins are going to change our SAT's and other tests that gauge our children's knowledge.

These people are dangerous.

I know you don't mean the

Doctor Cleveland — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:56:30 +0000

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I know you don't mean the question seriously but ... you need decent, although not fabulous, grades and SATs to get into Oral Roberts. They take about 65% of their students, which isn't very selective but is tougher than many good schools.

The pernicious thing isn't that they're stupid. It's that they train their intellectual energies toward irrational ends. It takes a lot of raw candlepower to come up with all the rationalizations you need to believe in nonsense.

I just cannot figure this new

Richard Day — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:34:24 +0000

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I just cannot figure this new approach to education at all.

How well does one have to perform on the SAT's to get into Oral Roberts University or the fake Robertson Law School these days?

Maybe all the IQ tests must be reexamined.

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Richard Day — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:32:14 +0000

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I tell ya Flower, at my age the slightest incline becomes more of a task. haha